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Lester Woda tugged on his safety rope to alert others that he was having trouble. The 49-year-old orchard manager was at the bottom of an irrigation tube, trying to fix a valve when his right foot became trapped.
A 1,200-pound (543.6 kilogram) gate fell on a worker, trapping him between his pickup truck and the gate and asphyxiating him.
A 29-year-old man who made a terrible decision after drinking will have almost two years in jail to think about the consequences of his actions. Raymond Shaw of Kelowna, BC, was the driver of a vehicle that sped through a highway construction zone and struck a flag woman so violently that her body flew and snapped off the top of a tree. She had been holding a "slow" sign.
A 19-year-old worker died when he reached inside the hopper of a rear-loading trash truck while it was cycling trash.
Nail guns are extremely convenient.
The Workers' Compensation Board of Prince Edward Island has charged a PEI wood-processing company in connection with an occupational fatality
Do your forklift operators consistently sound horns when turning around corners or entering trucks?
A 23-year-old supervisor lost his life to a rotating sidearm brush while cleaning the floor of an older mechanized carwash.
Jeffrey Mills was the kind of man who didn't mind going out of his way to help out.
A 23-year-old worker who could not swim drowned in a landscape pond in Oregon.
A 44-year-old inmate of a North Carolina state prison who was working as a laborer was electrocuted while performing contract work for a utility company.
Two workers died trying to fix a wastewater valve housed in a manhole.
A victim had apparently been spreading crushed rock in a seven feet deep (2.1 meters) by 53-inch (135-centimeter) wide trench.
While shingling a house, a 46-year-old roofer fell more than 20 feet (six meters) to his death.
If you're tasked with shoveling snow off a roof this winter, take a lesson from this fatality, in which an employee fell through a snow-covered skylight.
A 28-year-old insulation installer was killed when a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) tank ruptured and ignited.
A computer technician who was looking for a box was killed when he leaned into a trash compactor.
A construction worker was killed when he fell 14 feet (about four meters) from a roof while installing metal roofing materials.
When in doubt, improvise. That old advice might work well in certain circumstances, but it?s dangerous if it involves compromising safety.
Talking to your workers about electrical hazards is always timely. [...]
At approximately midnight, a worker was attempting to repair a leak in a hydraulic cylinder of a newly installed washer in a commercial laundry plant. Leaning under the machine, he attempted to unhook a hydraulic
A defective brake caliper exploded during a test while it was being repaired in a shop. One worker was killed and two more were injured by the flying fragments. The brake caliper had been part
The driver of a flat deck truck loaded with bricks was killed when the vehicle hit a soft shoulder, went out of control, crossed into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a tractor-trailer. The incident
A worker in a steel mill was removing steel slag from the bottom of a ladle, about 14 by 10 by 8 feet in size. He was using a jackhammer, a pry bar and an
Lack of oxygen killed a farmer who fell into a silo. He was preparing for the arrival of corn to be placed in the top of the silo. He climbed into the top of the
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